Guides & Answers
Straight answers to the Google Maps and review questions hospitality owners actually ask. No jargon, no fluff, written from managing 250+ venue profiles every day.
Guides
How to Respond to a Bad Google Review
The professional response formula, a copy-and-paste template, and the mistakes that make one bad review cost you covers.
Why Did My Venue Drop on Google Maps?
The six causes behind almost every ranking drop, in the order you should check them, and what recovery actually involves.
Do Review Responses Help Your Google Ranking?
What Google actually says about responding to reviews, and the revenue effect that matters even more than position.
How Many Google Reviews Does Your Venue Need?
Why the real target is set by the venues around you, and the three numbers that matter more than your total.
How to Get More Google Reviews, the Right Way
Timing, QR codes and staff habits that build steady review flow, plus the shortcuts that get venues suspended.
How to Get Your Restaurant Recommended by ChatGPT and AI Search
Diners now ask AI where to eat. What the assistants actually read, and how to become the venue they recommend.
Do Google Posts Actually Matter for Restaurants?
An honest look at what posts do for ranking, what they do for bookings, and the cadence that works.
How Google Maps Ranking Actually Works
Relevance, distance and prominence in plain English: what you can influence, what you cannot, and where venues lose.
Why Negative Reviews Are Good for Business
The reframe that changes everything: criticism as a trust-building moment, with the three levels of response.
How to Build a Review Culture in Your Team
Reviews are a team sport: onboarding, morale, monthly rhythms and team rewards done the compliant way.
How Google’s AI Reads Your Restaurant Photos
Google labels every photo you upload. What the AI actually sees, and the photo mistakes that mislabel your venue.
The 5 Photos Every Venue Profile Needs
The exact shot list we brief for client photoshoots, plus the 30-second video formula that brings a profile to life.
The Monthly Google Profile Routine
The six-area monthly maintenance habit that stops a healthy profile quietly rotting.
Where we work
Google Maps Management for Bali Venues
For restaurants, cafes and beach clubs across Bali: the profile management that decides who tourists choose.
Google Maps Management for Australian Venues
For Australian restaurants, cafes and bars: win the "near me" searches in your suburb without ad spend.
Google Maps Management for Amsterdam Venues
For Amsterdam venues serving locals and tourists at once: a Google profile that wins both audiences.
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